From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760601AbZBFRz5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2009 12:55:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755874AbZBFRzY (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2009 12:55:24 -0500 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:51618 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753640AbZBFRzX (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2009 12:55:23 -0500 Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 18:55:18 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Greg KH , KOSAKI Motohiro , mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: open(2) says O_DIRECT works on 512 byte boundries? Message-ID: <20090206175517.GR14011@random.random> References: <20090128213322.GA15789@kroah.com> <20090129141338.34e44a1f.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20090129160826.701E.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> <20090130061714.GC31209@kroah.com> <20090202220856.GY20323@random.random> <20090203102920.684e7b67.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20090203023147.GZ20323@random.random> <20090203115540.86a01273.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090203115540.86a01273.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:55:40AM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > No need to make a patch for copy_hugetlb_page_range() ? > IMHO, HugeTLB can be write-protected at fork(). Yeah that was entirely correct, thanks Kame! I reproduced it with libhugetlbfs and verified it fixed it now.